Shreya of Crestron Electronics

This talk will first provide an introduction to Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables followed by a discussion on Transition to Open Cable Model and Software Defined Networking (SDN). The talk will then end with discussion on Recent Developments, including 400 Tbps Speeds, Oil and Gas Platform Riser Cables, and Detecting Earthquakes with Undersea Cables. The outline is as follows:

• Introduction to Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables

• What are Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables?
• Physical and Cyber Security of Undersea Cables

• Transition to Open Cable Model

• Spectrum Sharing Solutions on Shared Infrastructure

• Software Defined Networking (SDN)

• Open APIs - Northbound/Southbound
• Vendor-Neutral SDN Operations Support Systems

• Other Recent Developments

• 400 Tbps Speeds
• Oil and Gas Platform Riser Cables
• Detecting Earthquakes with Undersea Cables

Biography:

Shreya Gautam completed her MSEE with Honors from Columbia University and has an interest in Digital Signal Processing and its applications to various fields - medical, telecommunications, and digital media. She is a reviewer of esteemed journals in Elsevier and has several patents/paper publications in the domain. 

Shreya joined the Network Management Systems team at SubCom LLC working on the reliability and management of undersea fiber-optic cable systems. At SubCom, she led the next generation of undersea network management solutions (with a special focus on interfaces for the reconfigurable wet plant) and led a cross-industry Working Group (with customers such as Google and Meta, dry-plant vendors such as Ciena and Infinera, and wet plant vendors such as SubCom and ASN) to adopt Open APIs for a vendor-neutral Open Cable model. She won the “Best Presentation” award at SubOptic 2019 for her paper presentation on “Application Interfaces for the Reconfigurable Wet Plant”.

Shreya then served the Infrastructure Storage team at Google LLC where she proposed and delivered $XXX M in direct cost savings by her storage-hardware efficiency initiatives and received many Google awards.  

She is currently the Lead Systems Architect at Crestron Electronics working on the architecture of their next generation control and automation products.